The Dark Hobby (2021)
All the pretty fishes and the price paid to tank them.
The Hawai'ian Islands are ground zero for the aquarium trade who capture and traffic reef fish for hobbyists’ tanks, decimating the reef, ocean and earth’s oxygen. Native Hawai'ians, conservationists, scientists, aquarium fish collectors and breeders are locked in a controversy over the stunning “treasure of Hawai'i” – the ornamental fish.
- Date of release
- 2021-05-21
- TMDB
- 8.3 / 10 (3)
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Paula Fouce
Casting
- Kimokeo Kapahulehua — Self - Kapuna Elder
- Robert Wintner — Self
- Wilfred Kaupiko — Self - Mayor of Milolilii
- Kaimi Kaupiko — Self
- Gail Grabowsky — Self - Chaminade Univ, Honolulu
- Ben Williamson — Self - PETA
- Jessica Wooley — Self - House of Representatives
- Jonathan Balcombe — Self - Author
- Teresa Telecky — Self - Humane Society International
- Kealoha Pisciotta — Self - Mauna Kea Anaina Hou
- Keith Christie — Self - Underwater Filmmaker
- Taylor Nicole Dean — Self - Avid Pet Advocate
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